First off, this is one of the best distro's I've used.... can't believe I didn't try it earlier, so a big congrats to everyone on this

I've installed kanopix 2005 / 04 without any hussle but I may have made an error somewhere along the partition line, 'cause after reboot, I have my "/" directory appear on the desktop as "hd1", 9.7GB media.

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ockham23

Titel:Verfasst am: 31.07.2006, 23:08 Uhr

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How stable is Easter-RC4 version?

Actually, it's quite stable for a preview release. But I wouldn't use it to run a nuclear power plant.

The only major issue I know of is with VIA onboard sound chips (e.g., VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller), which may cause the sound system driver to hang during start up. But there's a simple solution for this problem.

_________________And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry at all (Doobie Brothers, "Black Water").

Strange, I'm using the easter rc4 version and this version as well as the 2005-04 version both display incorrect partition sizes on the desktop icons, for example, my root partition is 7 gigs, it says 7.5 on desktop, my /home is 5.94 gigs, it says 6.4 on the desktop, and so on. I wonder why?

nitto

Titel:Verfasst am: 01.08.2006, 15:47 Uhr

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Could it be due to the way I partitioned my hdd??
I created the root "/" in the primay partition then Extended the rest, which then divided into /usr /opt etc....

Is this the correct way to partition OR was it suppose to be all Primary Partitions?

devil hat folgendes geschrieben::

nitto,
i was just wondering, because your disk is hdh. if you have only one, it would be hda.

greetz
devil

mzilikazi

Titel:Verfasst am: 01.08.2006, 22:03 Uhr

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nitto hat folgendes geschrieben::

Could it be due to the way I partitioned my hdd??
I created the root "/" in the primay partition then Extended the rest, which then divided into /usr /opt etc....

Is this the correct way to partition OR was it suppose to be all Primary Partitions?

I can see nothing wrong with the way you have partitioned your drive. It is fine to have only 1 primary and the rest logical drives in the extended partition. Linux does not care. It
seems to me that your desktop hdd icons are stupid or just lying to you. I dunno since I don't use them. What does the command df -h say?

The KDE users are forever mucking about with those desktop icons to get them to work right - I personally would not trust them.

I can see nothing wrong with the way you have partitioned your drive. It is fine to have only 1 primary and the rest logical drives in the extended partition. Linux does not care. It
seems to me that your desktop hdd icons are stupid or just lying to you. I dunno since I don't use them. What does the command df -h say?

I can see nothing wrong with the way you have partitioned your drive. It is fine to have only 1 primary and the rest logical drives in the extended partition. Linux does not care. It
seems to me that your desktop hdd icons are stupid or just lying to you. I dunno since I don't use them. What does the command df -h say?

Now it would be wise to make backups of both /var & /home/<username> before continuing. Seriously - make a backup.

None of your other partitions are mounted. I don't know if this was a bug with the installer or just a simple error during installation. At any rate you don't need to reinstall. You can make it right. This is no more complicated than copying dirs & files from one place to another. Each partition needs to be listed in /etc/fstab or they won't get mounted. As root using your favorite editor edit /etc/fstab.

at the end, I just re-installed with the Easter-RC4 and after a second try, everything worked fine.
I think the source of the problem was the software package QTparted.
As suggested, I used the CFdisk to partition my hdd while working with the LiveCD of Easter-RC4 then formated the partitions with reiserFS. Installing from that point was only a 9min smooth transaction

One question is the partitions on the hdd.

After reading many pages on the web about this, I was still not clear on what is the better way to partition my hdd for Kanotix, so I used :
/
/home
/opt
/data
/var
Swap

but it seems, /opt and /data are almost entirely empty, whereas / and /var fairly full.

Is there a more optimum way to partition a 200GB hdd on a latest model system for a single user? (possible uses are games/video/data etc...)

cheers

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The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw)

arlekin

Titel:Verfasst am: 05.08.2006, 18:13 Uhr

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Nitto,
I would suggest (and use myself) a partition table like this, "as complicated as needed, as simple as possible":

Code:

/
/home
/data

The reasoning: I prefer to keep the OS separate from my own files (but there's no need to divide the OS up, at least not in your or my case, I think); on the home partition I keep all the stuff I take as important (and backup very often); videos, music and other large files of less importance I store on the data partition.

but it seems, /opt and /data are almost entirely empty, whereas / and /var fairly full.

/opt will fill in time. Some applications use this diretory e.g. openoffice.org. /data is not in any way part of the Linux filesystem heirarchy standard. Perhaps /data was suggested as a place to store files to be accessed by both Linux & windows? If I were to put any directory on another partition it would be /usr. That's going to fill up rather quickly. Everytime you install an application most of it goes directly into /usr. Here is my current partition table as an example.

I'm assuming that with all the partition suggestions above, Swap is still there, right?
I mean,
eg. /
/home
/data
/Swap

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mzilikazi

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nitto hat folgendes geschrieben::

I'm assuming that with all the partition suggestions above, Swap is still there, right?
I mean,
eg. /
/home
/data
/Swap

I get access violation problems when I try to save or write anything into /data partition. It's been owned by root and won't allow me to write anything into it.

How do I change this so that I can start using all the partitions!

cheers

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw)